The Department of Transportation (DOTr) blamed the delay in license plate manufacturing on budget limitations at the Land Transportation Office (LTO), after the agency was chastised by the Commission on Audit (COA) for failing to produce P2.159 billion in license plates.

DOTr said in a statement that the mentioned backlog in plate manufacturing is attributable to the LTO’s lack of fund.

It stated to keep in mind that the LTO, like any other national government agency, remits all its collected income to the National Treasury. As a result, it must request a budget allocation from the national government to cover all its programs and operations.

As an example, the LTO claimed that it requested a funding of P1.86 billion in 2019 but was only allocated P696.74 million.

The LTO wanted P3.5 billion in 2020 but received just P925.41 million. However, only P736.74 million of this amount was made available to the agency

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